Using all the power of the Internet and all the Butson netizens out
there.....maybe, together, we can crack this case and finally track down
not only the origin of Ensign Butson, Revolutionary Soldier Wheelas
Butson, Solomon, Cecil and the Canadian Butsons but the source of each
country's Butsons and ultimately nail down the origin of our
"rare" name.

As the days go by, I will endeavor to upload data
to this site that I have received from Wesley Johnston's Butson
Newsletters, email, personal research and other information I have on
the Australian, New Zealand, South African, Hungarian, U.S. and British
Butson lineage. So....check back often and stay in touch.

"Perhaps
the most interesting lists are those of the men who enlisted early in
1776 and 1777 in the Lake Champlain and Upper Hudson campaigns. The
first is Capt. Edward Jessup's Corps of Loyal American Rangers, enlisted
Nov. 4, 1776, recruited by John Buel, Sergt. and Martin Kelly, corporal
(both old soldiers) and enlisted for 82 days." G. T. Butson,
Ensign. (one on list)

CANDIDATE FOR EARLIEST, RECORDED, NORTH AMERICAN BUTSON:

Thomas BUTSON

Sex:

M

Marriage(s):

Spouse:

Jemima UDALE

Marriage:

5 Jan 1726

First Church,
Huntington, Suffolk, New York

Please email me at (bnethost*@butson.net
(remove asterisk)) to
leave a note, ask a question or give information on or about we
Butson peoples. Upon visiting the "Vintage
Forums", if you read anything
you feel you may like to add to, or maybe a problem or request you can
help with....or a great link to Butson
"stuff"....please send me an email and I will publish
it and a response so we may all read
it and profit from each other's knowledge.

Any comments or suggestions you may have
for this site and our endeavors, may be sent to the above email
address, also.

By the way....there is no charge for
anything on this site, no commercials, banners, aggravating
ads or hidden agendas.

This website is a non-profit endeavor to
assist, as best we can, in furthering the initial work of Wesley
Johnston. We hope it will help bring Butson descendants
together in one forum, with a common goal of creating complete,
historically accurate, and lasting genealogical records for our
children and grandchildren.

I hope you will join me in this search for
and review of our ancestral past.

Last, but not
least....many thanks and warm regards to Mr. Wesley Johnston for
the great work he has done on
"The Butson Family
Newsletter" (1979 - 1998) and all he has done to
further our knowledge and to bring the World - Wide Butson
family together.

Question of the
week! Is this the earliest recorded marriage of a
Butson in Australia?: